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Funeral practices and animal sacrifices in Mongolia at the Uigur period: archaeological and ethno-historical study of a kurgan in the Egyin Gol valley (Baikal region)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

E. Crubézy ,
H. Martin ,
P.-H. Giscard ,
Z. Batsaikhan ,
S. Erdenebaatar ,
J. P. Verdier  and
B. Maureille
E. Crubézy
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Anthropologie, Université de Bordeaux I, Avenue des Facultés, 33405 Talence Cedex, France
H. Martin
Affiliation:
Groupe de Recherches en Préhistoire, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, 3100 Toulouse, France
P.-H. Giscard
Affiliation:
Institut des Déserts, 76 rue d'Assas, 75006 Paris, France
Z. Batsaikhan
Affiliation:
Institut d'Histoire de l'Académie des Sciences de Mongolie, Zhuliov Street 77, Ulan Bator 54, Mongolia
S. Erdenebaatar
Affiliation:
Institut d'Histoire de l'Académie des Sciences de Mongolie, Zhuliov Street 77, Ulan Bator 54, Mongolia
J. P. Verdier
Affiliation:
Géomètre-Expert, 91490 Milly-la-Forêt, France
B. Maureille
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Anthropologie, Université de Bordeaux I, Avenue des Facultés, 33405 Talence Cedex, France
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The nomadic peoples of central Eurasia are famous for their elaborate burial customs — both as those are known ethnohistorically and evident in the frozen tombs of Pazyryk. The Mongolian chambered grave reported here is of the 9th century AD. To that era the ethnohistorical record may have relevance in inferring its ceremony, alongside a considered knowledge in experimental spirit of just what must have taken place at the grave in order to create the certain pattern seen on excavation.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 270 , December 1996 , pp. 891 - 899
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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